Beyond Phraata: an introduction -- Ulysses Victorianus -- Homeric twilights -- Classicism and Anglo-Irish retrenchment -- The humbling of Ulysses: Cavafy and kenosis -- Looking for the barbarians -- In the metropole of language -- Chiasmus and the cantos -- "History was here" -- Black Greeks -- Correcting his name -- Missing sounds and mutable meanings -- Beyond empire and nation: an envoi -- Appendix A: "The end of Odysseus" (1894) -- Appendix B: Poems of Cavafy
